What's Your Favourite Character?

[BeijingMadeEasy]

I've always loved 中 it just seems so... perfect.

But I quite like 河 as well.

I just like them for the way they look and feel, I've always been intrigued why 家 is written the way it is though.

Anyone else?

[muyongshi]

Not that it really matter but in calligraphy (I don't know why) I love to write 之

I just like them for the way they look and feel, I've always been intrigued why 家 is written the way it is though.

What you don't have a pig under your roof??? I bet it was written by a woman who had a pig for a husband...

[yonglin]

I love to write 之

just because it makes you feel like you're Zorro duh.

i'm a very conventional person, hence tend to like 囍.

喜 on the other hand is a quite horrible character: impossible to fit into a square grid.

[magudo]

飛 and 漢

[Ari 桑]

I've always had a thing for 发 and 衣 or anything with an 衣 like thing in it.

[muyongshi]

just because it makes you feel like you're Zorro duh.

You know what...you're right! Absolutely right Never even thought about that 之

[Alcides]

I like 是. Something about the way the character flows with pen and brush. It's just nice. I like the ren part the most.

Alcides.

[Qiuyue]

拿 is nice, something with symmetry perhaps.

[rob07]

I like 缸 (gang1 - earthen jug, crock, cistern).

[AuroraNing]

"永“

[muyongshi]

I also like 子 in writing calligraphy.... don't know but I prefer the simpler ones... they look better

[lokki]

衣 or anything with an 衣 like thing in it.

Same here. My absolute favourite is 袁, mainly for being so dynamic. It really looks like it is on its way somewhere. Other favourites are 说 and 总.

Other ones conjure up funny associations, like 某, which looks like a cow coming towards you, legs astride, on a motorcycle. I normally stick to simplified characters, but the traditinonal 萬 is funny. It looks like a raging bull charging straight at you, with the horns on top of its head and you-know-what hanging between its legs .

Then for some reason I have taken a dislike to 青, especially in the many combinations where it makes up one half of the character. Can't explain it but I just find it boring to write.

[ayala]

My favorite character is

安

i jusy love everything about it!

the shape (almost symmetrical but still soft), the sound, the meaning.

if i had the courage i would have tattooed it on my body.

[Lu]

like 某, which looks like a cow coming towards you, legs astride, on a motorcycle

Great association. And it even sounds like that! (mou)

[liuzhou]

串

Perfect simplicity - on a stick.

[skylee]

串

Perfect simplicity - on a stick.

On a stick as a 串 of fishballls.

[xuuuu]

how about "爱"？In Chinese it means LOVE

[skylee]

how about "爱"？In Chinese it means LOVE

Now that you've mentioned it, I just wanna say that IMHO the traditional character "愛", which has a heart inside, is so much nicer than the simplified "爱", which only has a friend inside.

[Yiwan]

Speaking of which, I do like traditional Chinese better for looking more beautiful. When comes to actually writing, I prefer simplified. You get the point.

[Rrina]

I'm actually surprised nobody has yet listed here yu3, the rain character:

雨

Now that I'm trying in earnest to learn to read I've found so many beautiful characters but this one has a special place because it was the first one I was able to remember. ''Rain falling through a window'' was the way it was described to me.